I haven't posted on here on what seems like ages. Felt that I should do so after that sorry performance today. All the pre-season doom-mongers: I hoped like hell that you were wrong, that from somewhere we could do just enough to finish fourth or fifth from bottom. With the lack of signings we made, though, it was always going to be an uphill struggle. To win that struggle, we need quality and we need fight. We have little of the former, and on today's evidence, none of the latter. It's been impressive this season that, whilst we've been up against teams with better ability than us, we've never given up, never stopped running. In the defeats at Wendy and Derby, in the game with Luton, all of which were lost, I came away feeling sad but proud that my team would defiantly keep plugging away. Then we have today. My God. I'm shaking my head as I'm typing this. I don't have the words to sum up how abject we were. Who came away with any credit? Nardiello - perhaps. None of the others, though. What the hell happened? Is the situation with Ritchie's contract having an impact? Lack of quality? Or both? For all that, though, I feel we should keep faith with the manager. Promotion last season was against all the odds, in my opinion. Give him the chance to, hopefully, bring us back up again. I say this fully aware of how appallingly bad we were today. I've seen some horrible away performances - 4-1 at Stockport springs to mind, and that awful night at Hillsborough that did for Spackman. Palace was certainly down there with the most abject, spineless performances I have ever seen. Yet keep faith with Ritchie. Reading back what I've written, I can't justify to anyone why I feel we should give him a new contract. Perhaps life might be even more morbid under a new manager, I don't know. God. I can't think straight. Typing this hasn't made me feel any less upset or hurt. Oh well. It's just a game. Doesn't really matter, does it? 22 blokes kicking a ball about. Poor us. We're fooking doomed.
Cheers for that mate. I'm so sorry for you I'm finding it hard to hold back the tears whilst I'm writing this.</p> Nice to have you back though mate.</p>
